Hi I’m Mike Wickstrand, Senior Director of Product Planning for Windows Azure. If you have something you need from Windows Azure, please tell us what it is and vote for other's ideas. I put a few things on the list just to get you started, but feel free to add your own! We want to better understand what you need from Windows Azure and to build plans around how we make the things that "bubble to the top" a reality for our customers in the future. Comments which aren't feature requests will be moderated. It’s that simple.
Thanks in advance!
Mike
| Mike Wickstrand | Senior Director, Windows Azure Product Planning | Microsoft |
| Email: mikewic@microsoft.com | http://www.twitter.com/wickstrand |
| Web: http://blogs.msdn.com/wickstrand/ |
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78 votes
Open Source Azure & create a marketplace of providers with no loss of strategic control or tax.
A marketplace of providers will require multiple providers, access to code / data and semantic interoperability. This means a common reference model. If Azure is open sourced then it can act as the common model without the providers suffering a loss of strategic control or tax. Given that cloud i... more
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6 votes
Dynamic IIS Compression Support (Real solution)
Currently there is no way to configure what is compressed. (Well you can change the ApplicationHost.config if you host the IIS Web Core under Worker role). This is really needed to compress WCF messages (application/soap etc.)
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4 votes
Make Join on the Table storage
Allow join feature on table storage.
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1 votes
Event Bus
Event Bus with events for storage manipulation (e.g. queue insert) in order to avoid poling.
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2 votes
Make raw logs available for CDN traffic
If raw logs were made available and posted to blob storage, developers could use them for sub-billing our customers for their usage of the CDN.
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3 votes
Add a scheduler
Add a scheduler service to invoke periodic work, such as dispatching emails to a queue. Use Cron or similar text based scheduling language.
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3 votes
More CPU Power
I would like to choices other than 1.6 GHz CPU.(Just like AmazonEC2)
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3 votes
Produce a better experince for teams of developers working on a single azure solution
Azure is currently not optimised for a development team , consolidated billing, being able to use the dev fabric other than on local host would go some way to addressing teh deficiencies
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3 votes
Support Perl
Perl is very stable on Windows.( Activestate Perl , Strawberry Perl )
and now has great frameworks for cloud( Plack PSGI ,Catalyst .. ) -
7 votes
pre paid Azure
A kind of pre paid service. On forehand you pay for the amount of CPU cycles, instances etc. When the limit is reached the services are stopped.
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3 votes
Ability to scale up instances more quickly
This is the ability to scale up and down services rapidly for on-demand computing. E.g. be able to add 20/100/500 instances to a service in 5 minutes.
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3 votes
Enlarge the Size of SQL Azure DB up to TBs
I have found lots of scenarios where Azure would be just perfect if it had TB DBs
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3 votes
Built-in logging for low-level issues
Multiple times I ran into issues where roles would not properly start or where log transfer to Blob storage does not work. This is an absolute time killer because the remedy is trial-and-error, waiting for a forum answer or contacting WAZ support.
I would expect that Windows Azure provides low-l... more -
2 votes
Provide a production version of the fabric that can run on premise
Just like the dev fabric however enable this as a production feature within IIS 7+.
This means develoeprs will be able to create solutions within the Azure project templates and framework but run on a local machine. This will allow companies that want to start small and within their own bounda... more
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3 votes